In this follow-up to 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies investigates the massive eruption of a "supervolcano" in 1500 BC, under the Mediterranean island of Santorini, and finds a connection to one of the most persistent legends of Western civilization. Is it possible that, like ancient Troy, the fabled city of Atlantis actually existed? Analyzing new geologic research, recently unearthed archaeological artifacts, and DNA evidence, Menzies declares that Atlantis did indeed exist—as part of the advanced pre-Grecian Minoan civilization, which extended from the Mediterranean to England, India, and even North America—and constructs a vivid portrait of this lost civilization.